Duchovny Joins Connie and Carla

Today's Hollywood Reporter scoops that former X-Files star David Duchovny has lined up his next big-screen role. Duchovny will reportedly star opposite My Big Fat Greek Wedding's Nia Vardalos and Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense, About a Boy) in Spyglass Entertainment's Connie and Carla.

The film, a "music-driven" yarn described as "Some Like It Hot meets Tootsie," is a female buddy comedy about two struggling dinner-theater singers (Vardalos and Collette) who are forced to go undercover in Los Angeles as drag queens. Duchovny plays Jeff, a character searching for his drag-queen brother in West Hollywood, who falls in love with Vardalos' character.

Michael Lembeck (The Santa Clause 2) is directing from a script penned by Vardalos.

Universal Pictures is distributing the project domestically. Shooting is expected to get underway in early May.